diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 17af9579e0..f411be1d7c 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -8643,32 +8643,11 @@ Key F15 A A Menu Workplace Nop - Internet standards and good engineering practice prohibit - us from providing packet forwarding by default in FreeBSD. You - can however enable this feature by changing the following - variable to YES in - &man.rc.conf.5;: - - gateway_enable=YES # Set to YES if this host will be a gateway - - This option will put the - &man.sysctl.8; variable - net.inet.ip.forwarding - to 1. - - In most cases, you will also need to run a routing process - to tell other systems on your network about your router; - FreeBSD comes with the standard BSD routing daemon - &man.routed.8; - or for more complex situations you may want to try - GaTeD (available from http://www.gated.org/) - which supports FreeBSD as of 3_5Alpha7. - - It is our duty to warn you that, even when FreeBSD is - configured in this way, it does not completely comply with - the Internet standard requirements for routers; however, - it comes close enough for ordinary usage. + Yes. Please see the Handbook entry on advanced + networking, specifically the section on routing + and gateways.